Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a…

It's interesting - the greatest country in the world, we shouldn't have people starving. We shouldn't have young people not getting something to eat.

— Charles Barkley

The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.

— Paul David Tripp

The problem is fundamental... It is as if a secret committee, now lost to history, has made a study of children and, having figured…

— Tracy Kidder

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.

— Bernard Crick

I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population

— David Attenborough

And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me…

— Philip Pullman

Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.

— Roman Jakobson

The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

— Claude Shannon

The fact that it wasn't tells me that we've got a much more fundamental problem of understanding what went wrong, and we've got to…

— David Kay

“So this is a fundamental problem, being out of a loop that I don't even believe in.”

— James P. Othmer

In a sense Shapley's telling me that space was transparent, which I shouldn't have believed, illustrates a fundamental problem in science, believing what people…

— Jesse L. Greenstein

“The fundamental problem has nothing to do with your behavior or your attitude. It has everything to do with having a wrong map.”

— Stephen R. Covey

The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.

— Valerie Plame

The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.

— Theodore Roosevelt